18 more Kazakh companies sign agreements on payment of compensations for contaminated oil

AKIPRESS.COM - The JSC KazTransOil and PJSC Transneft signed 18 more agreements on payment of compensations for contaminated oil, the press service of the Kazakh company reports.
Within the framework of regulation of the incident with contamination of about 699,000 tons of oil of the Kazakh oil companies at "Druzhba" trunk oil pipeline system in April-May 2019, the KazTransOil company on behalf of these companies signed with the Transneft an agreement on payment of compensation for low-quality oil to 18 more companies.
The works on signing of agreements on payment of compensations to the Kazakh companies are underway. On November 7, 2019, the KazTransOil concluded agreements in favor of 14 Kazakh oil companies, according to Director General of the company Dimash Dosanov.
"Today we signed the similar agreements with 18 companies. The agreements with the remaining 6 companies will be registered as soon as they are ready," he said.
On April - May 2019, at emergency situation related to presence of high concentrations organochlorine compounds on transported oil in system of trunk oil pipelines, JSC "Transneft" led the shipment substandard oil for Kazakh shippers to tankers in port Ust-Luga. JSC "KazTransOil" and JSC "Transneft" agreed on compensation of damage to Kazakh shippers regarding substandard oil shipment in port Ust-Luga, on June this year.